This task force has not been appointed, nor has it been convened.
It’s not making representations to Parliament, nor submitting draft
legislation... just announced to
start work mid-July. That is, start work on CONSIDERING whether corrective rape
is to be considered a hate crime, and prepare to engage in that most insidious
of all pointless propaganda pursuits, “sensitivity training”.

I’m horrified by the fact that we are hailing this as a major victory. And that
it took the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) to prompt the ANC Women’s League to declare these attacks as
“heartless and senseless” hate crimes.

It’s a week before local elections, and this is the best bone we are thrown?

And it’s not as if no-one has spoken up. After 922 516 signatures on a Avaaz petition,
and 171 776 at Change.org
and articles in hundreds of national and international media, this ANCWL
statement and the task force announcement are ‘victories’.

So, Minister Radebe, your talks about talks took four months to result in an
announcement of getting a task force together to talk about talks?

Women and children are dying in horrific ways as a result of premeditated hate
crimes in South Africa... and this is the best, apparently, we can do to
address the problem: a few timeous press releases? This is not just
“paying lip service” to the Constitution, it’s a fine line from ignoring it all
together.

Do you think more
should have been done to stop corrective rape by now?